Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: bronchopneumonia

  • Franz Liszt, best piano player in Europe

    Composer and pianist Franz Liszt. Photo by Franz Hanfstaengl. 1858. Via Wikimedia. Like Mozart and Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt was a musical prodigy. He played the piano when he was five years old. At eight, he could read difficult music, and two years later he was composing music himself. By age twelve he was ranked one…

  • Wounded deer—Medical aspects of the life of Frida Kahlo

    Farrah JawadLondon, UK “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.” — Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon in Coyocan, Mexico City, on July 6, 1907, to Matilde Calderon y Gonzalez, a woman of mixed Spanish and Mexican heritage, and…